08-04-2010, 08:32 PM
You can certainly buy traps if you want. I only posted this as its a fun project to do with your kids, and you can build 3 large traps for the cost of a single store bought trap.
[quote downed_Phly]I think I've seen them the cheapest at Sportsman's. They look like [url "http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0002258014322a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=crawfish+trap&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=0&N=0&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&Go.x=0"]this[/url]. I use the round ones myself, but I don't know which shape is best. [/quote]
I've got both of those commercially made ones. If you drop the square trap in the water where you can see it, come back and you will notice more of them hanging on the outside than inside.
The round ones suck. I've tried it off and on and at most, I've had 2 in it
It works much better as a minnow trap.
The net sounds fun. I've never gone specifically for crawdads though. The traps are fun to just toss out and check from time to time as we troll past. I've had a few stolen though so I no longer paint my bottles orange (I use something that hides well, then mark the trap loc on the GPS).
-DallanC
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[quote downed_Phly]I think I've seen them the cheapest at Sportsman's. They look like [url "http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0002258014322a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=crawfish+trap&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=0&N=0&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&Go.x=0"]this[/url]. I use the round ones myself, but I don't know which shape is best. [/quote]
I've got both of those commercially made ones. If you drop the square trap in the water where you can see it, come back and you will notice more of them hanging on the outside than inside.
The round ones suck. I've tried it off and on and at most, I've had 2 in it
It works much better as a minnow trap. Quote:When I go out for crawdads I throw my traps in for a few hours and I always catch a few. I'm usually not leaving them in for more than a couple of hours (I like to fish while my traps are in) but I can catch a TON more by hand just by wading in the shallows with a net. It's more fun too.
The net sounds fun. I've never gone specifically for crawdads though. The traps are fun to just toss out and check from time to time as we troll past. I've had a few stolen though so I no longer paint my bottles orange (I use something that hides well, then mark the trap loc on the GPS).
-DallanC
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